For some reason its not picking up the party or picking up anything other then the chat. I'm not sure how to fix it. I've uninstalled and re. Ran as admin. Etc. Its not picking up the DPS or anything that has to do with actions.

On Windows 8, my fiancee could never get the FFXIV app to do... well anything. None of the crystals are options at the top, and she couldn't get it to load her character data. You can't even type in the field to enter anything to locate the character. Since there were no help files or any info on what to do, I just didn't bother beyond trying to play in a few areas before just telling her to live without it for now.

On Windows 8, my fiancee could never get the FFXIV app to do... well anything. None of the crystals are options at the top, and she couldn't get it to load her character data. You can't even type in the field to enter anything to locate the character. Since there were no help files or any info on what to do, I just didn't bother beyond trying to play in a few areas before just telling her to live without it for now.

Alright, I'll give it another go tonight. She's been chomping at the bit to have a parser so she can see if she's doing well. I'm betting it's the fact she used the windows unzip that's creating the issue.

Yea, I think that wasn't ever the issue. The program itself looked broken. It didn't look like any of the screenshots I saw, it definitely looked like something was missing. Likely the binaries never uncompressed, leaving it gutted and just a pretty window. I'll post after we get setup tonight if there's any other issues.

Sorry I didn't get back to you on this, just had time today to get it set up. I haven't tested it yet (fiancee not at home and was doing this via remote, long story), but this time after using the 7-Zip, the Plug-in tab and the Lodestone character loading both worked. Likely that's the issue right there. I'll have her run it tonight and see what kind of job it does actually parsing.